Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem Academic Symposium 2025

“Zionism and Indigeneity versus Settler Colonialism and Historical Revisionism”
4 November 2025, Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem 

Our Academic Symposium 2025 builds on the success of our 2024 Symposium, which featured, among others, Natan Sharansky, Prof Ilan Troen, Prof Gil Troy, Izabella Tabarovsky, Dr Charles Asher Small, Prof Wayne Horowitz and Dr Sheree Trotter.

Certain ideologies emanating from academia regarding Israel and the Jewish people have created false narratives that contribute greatly to the rise in antisemitism on Western campuses and in society generally. These must be understood, critiqued and deconstructed. They include, but are not limited to, settler colonial ideology, decolonisation, post-colonial narratives, critical theory and anti-Zionism.

The IEJ Academic Symposium 2025 will provide a platform for expert exploration of these ideas. It will address historical revisionism and false narratives, and strengthen Jewish identity. Additional speakers at Symposium 2025 will be announced shortly.

Supported by:
Institute for Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy • Israel Institute of New Zealand • NZ Friends of Israel Association Inc

Symposium 2025 goals include:

  • To address false narratives and challenges faced by students in the academy

  • To reaffirm Jewish identity

  • To strengthen Indigenous solidarity with Israel

    View Symposium 2024 Videos on YouTube

Prof Ghil’ad Zuckermann
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Prof Ghil’ad Zuckermann

Applying lessons from the Hebrew revival to the reclamation of empowerment of Indigenous languages and cultures in Australia, New Zealand and beyond
Ghil'ad Zuckermann is an Israeli-born language revivalist and linguist who works in contact linguistics, lexicology and the study of language, culture and identity. He was awarded the Rubinlicht Prize (2023) "for his research on the profound influence of Yiddish on modern Hebrew", and listed among Australia's top 30 "living legends of research" (2024) by The Australian. He is a hyperpolyglot.

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Dr Charles Asher Small
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Dr Charles Asher Small

Jewish Perceptions of Exile in the Wake of Postmodern Colonialism and Antisemitism
Dr. Charles Asher Small is the Founding Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle East and African Studies at Tel Aviv University and the Goldman Fellow at the School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University. He will also be a Visiting Academic and Senior Member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford University.

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Dr Sheree Trotter
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Dr Sheree Trotter

Tracing the intellectual genealogy of the anti-Israel stream in Māori academic discourse. 
Sheree Trotter is New Zealand Maori (Te Arawa). She earned a PhD in history from the University of Auckland (Thesis: Zionism in New Zealand to 1948). In 2012 she co-founded the Holocaust and Antisemitism Foundation for whom she has interviewed seventy Holocaust survivors. Sheree completed an Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy scholars-in-residence course at University of Oxford in 2023. She is co-director of Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem.

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Dr Michael Wechsler
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Dr Michael Wechsler

The Fabrication of a History: The Palestinian narrative and the undermining of Jewish connection to the Land
Michael G. Wechsler earned his Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from the University of Chicago. He is a research associate with the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw. He specializes in biblical languages and Hebrew Scriptures and his research and publication focuses on Judaeo-Arabic literature, with particular emphasis on pre-modern exegetical and theological literature, as well as well as the literary and ideological contacts between Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

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Prof Wayne Horowitz
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Prof Wayne Horowitz

Wayne Horowitz, Hebrew University, is an archeologist and academic specializing in ancient Near East and Assyriology. For the past decade Professor Horowitz has worked on a joint research program with the Gwich'in Tribal Council, Department of Culture and Heritage in the Northwest Territories, Canada, to protect and recover Gwich’in knowledge of stellar and other heavenly phenomena.

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Erin Ross
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Erin Ross

Indigeneity on Trial: Deconstructing Anti-Zionist Rhetoric, Islamist Entrenchment, and the Erasure of Jewish and Native American Histories in U.S. Discourse
Erin Ross, citizen of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, possesses more than a decade of professional experience working in Indian Country and for state government. As a subject matter expert in tribal economic development, tribal planning, the Indian Child Welfare Act, American Indian/Alaska Native college student retention, American Indian Law, and strategic planning, Erin values listening, collaboration, and direct consultation with sovereign tribal nations, their citizens and their descendants.

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Prof Gillian Gould
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Prof Gillian Gould

Stronger Together: Stories of Indigenous Collaboration

Professor Gillian Gould is a Public Health Researcher, Tobacco Treatment Specialist, and General Practitioner dedicated to improving the health of First Nations communities in Australia.

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